Amber J. Guadez
Staff Writer
The Very Intellectual Poets and the Black Student Union collaborated to host an open mic showcase that focused on the topic of Political Warfare with the presidential election right around the corner.
Two professional spoken word artists were featured and invited to perform, David Romero and Matt Sedillo, as well as Judah 1.
“I thought it was a great experience for students...

Veronica Orozco
News Editor
Students gathered in the Arts and Communications Building Wednesday afternoon for the continuation of the Language and Cinema film series presented by the department of modern languages.
This week’s movie, “El Orfanato,” is a 2007 Spanish psychological thriller directed by Juan Antonio Bayona.
The movie began by showing young children in an orphanage and a call being...

Karo Chakhlasyan
Arts Editor
The lights dimmed, the applause came to a slow stop and the scene crew set up a brick wall dividing the stage. Thus began an unexpected tale of romance as “The Romancers,” a play directed by theater arts major Zachary Green began Wednesday night in Dailey Theatre.
The play was presented to the University as a one-night-only show, part of homecoming week.
“Given the...

Faculty Recital
The next faculty recital will feature Danielle Cummins on violin, Benjamin Coyte on cello and Kevin Mills on piano. The recital starts at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Morgan Auditorium. Admission is free.
‘Alumni Allegories: Dissent’
The Carlson Gallery presents a collaborative project between photography and writing. Students from Sean Bernard’s Writing 307 class will write a written...

Junior art history major Lauren Rios, junior psychology major Jared Taylor, senior public affairs major Jesus Vargas-Lopez and junior multimedia and speech communications major Chris Pulu meet in Sneaky Park as part of the Jam Fam Club. In 2011 Pulu and others started jamming in Sneaky Park as a way to escape from school and other stress. As more people came to share music with them, they decided to...

Michelle Nunez
Staff Writer
Faculty members and students grooved along with the Latin jazz rhythms from Reed Gratz on piano on Sunday night in Morgan Auditorium.
Accompanying him on stage was fellow music faculty member Steve Alaniz on saxophone and University of La Verne students David Vorobyov playing bass and Phillip Greenwood on drums.
The musicians started the performance with the song titled,...

Christian Orozco
Sports Editor
If you took a drive down Union Pacific in East Los Angeles Saturday you might have heard the ruckus that was coming out of an ominous warehouse. That ruckus was F*** That Fest
The weird and the creepy came out to support the underground music scene of garage rock, surf, blues, psychedelic, folk and punk.
“For five bucks and this many bands I had to come out,” Ontario...

Katie Madden
Staff Writer
The Green Day boys are at it again, and by “it” I mean releasing another disappointing record that confirms they just can’t make a truly exciting and unique album anymore.
“¡Uno!,” the band’s ninth studio album, comes across as an attempt of a 40-something dad, desperate to appear as cool to his punk, teenage son.
Following the release of one too many family friendly...

Erica Maurice
Staff Writer
“Hotel Transylvania” is the perfect heart-warming children’s movie to connect the whole family.
The film, directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, tells the story of Dracula, voiced by Adam Sandler, as he tries to shield his daughter Mavis, voiced by Selena Gomez, from the human world.
Tartakovsky has directed and produced some of the animated shows that 1990s kids grew...